Gates gives €576m to developing countries

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is donating €576m to support immunisation programmes in developing countries, he announced today.

Gates gives €576m to developing countries
Tue, 25 Jan, 2005 - 07:48
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Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is donating €576m to support immunisation programmes in developing countries, he announced today.

The 10-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation will be used to buy and distribute vaccines for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, polio, hepatitis B and yellow fever.

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